Kim Robinson - assigned reading #5

"The whole country full of woods and thickets, represented a wild and savage hue" William Bradford, Making Nature Sacred page 19

Before coming to school I lived close to Northern Virginia. I would say that my county is what people consider then end of NOVA. Being that close to DC land is limited because of the population of people that live there. Even though in Stafford County there are farm lands and open areas of space it's nothing that I would consider full of woods and thickets that has a wild and savage hue. I wonder sometimes what it would be like to stumble across an unknown area of land and experience that feeling. To have that feeling that at any second fate could turn against you, that a savage land could take hold of you. There really is no where along the East Coast that one can do that and have those feelings. Wilderness is a dying space and every inch of land that is available developers want to use to build or use for it's resources. Its nice to have area such as the lands that are bought up by the ATC in order to perserve some sort of wilderness. Possibly one day, especially with the career field I want to pursue, i can travel to remote places around the world and experience those feelings. Do I really want to though?? :-)